The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-05-26
Women Flogged BY the Beers.

The editor of the Eastern ProUi11ce
Herald writes from Port Elizabeth call
ing attention to Boer brutality in the
Transvaal. The accuracy of the ac-
count is vouched for:
My name is Sara. | am about "a
years of age. On Monday last l was
discharged from the Pretoria Jail, after
being imprisoned for two months. |
was sent to prison because was said to
have been impudentto TO a white woman.
| was not impudent, but, Mrs. d.
said that | had enticed the girl Rachel
to run away. The fieldcornet came
with black constable and said:
Catch the impudent woman and
take her to prison" Maraba said that
| should he taken to the landdrOst.
First | was taken to the landdrost
The landdrost said that | must pay a
fine of t3 or 90 to the tronk for two
months and receive twenty-five lashes.
Mrs. ID. said that | bad come to entice
the girl away, and that Charlotte was
the impudent one. Charlotte was fined
FL los, which was paid Rachel was
fined f1 10s., which was paid by S.
CoetZee, and she had to work it out. |
was fined Is, but as 1 could not pay |
was sent to tronk and ordered to get
twenty-five lashes. | was locked up
for three weeks, and then the land
drOst came to the tronk and ordered
me to receive the twenty-five lashes
while he stood by. | was tied up by my
wrists and legs and was fogged until
| tainted. The blood came out my back
where l was flOgged. | had all my
clothes taken off with the exception of
my chemise, which was held around
my lOins. 1t was after breakfast that
| was flogged. When the landdrost
came | was washing his clothes. When
L recovered from my faint | found my
self on the blanket. In the night OF
the day that | was fiogged they senf
for a doctor. He pulled open my
mouth and put some stuff to my nose
| think he came in the middle of the
night The next day l was told to 90
and finish the washing of the landdrost' s
clothes. The landdrost's maid,
Mayisa, who was in the tronk, told
the landdrost that l would not wash
the clothes. | did not say so, but /
could not as my back was too sore
Mavira had been twice tlogged by order
of the landdrost. The first time she
had fifteen lashes, which were inflicted
in the mems yard. She was stripped.
her chemise being tied about her as
mine was. She was then fiogged on
her shoulders. She was put in the
tronk for two days on that occasion
When she got out she went to the
landdrOst's house, and as she refused
to work i'll consequence of her back
being sore she was sent back for four
days and to receive a tiOgging of
twenty-five lashes. As her back was
too raw to be fiogged again in the
same place | was told to roll up her
chemise so that she could be logged
lower down. That tlogging took place
in the women's yard. Mr.. Van Reenen
was present, and the women were
fiogged by Jack" Van Reenen
would not let me be beaten at first,
because, he said, | was too weak,
About three weeks after | was put in
the trOnk the landdTost came up in
order to see that his sentence on me was
carried out, and | was tied up and
fiogged in his presence, the landdrost
standing in front of me. When the
landdrost was told that | would not
finish the washing of his clothes he
ordered me to be put in the stocks,
and | was kept in the stocks for two
days and two nights, and kt pt without
food the whole time. | know of six
women being iogged while l was
in the tronk. All were logged
with the cato mine tails, and all were
beaten by Jack" who does all the
fogging in the jail.